Funny Games
A film by Michael Haneke
with Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski
SCREENPLAY AND DIRECTOR Michael Haneke
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Jürgen Jürges
PRODUCTION DESIGNER Christoph Kanter
COSTUME DESIGNER Lisy Christl
SOUND ENGINEER Walter Amann
EDITOR Andreas Prochaska
POSTPRODUCTION Michael Katz, Ulrike Lässer
PRODUZENT Veit Heiduschka
PRODUCTION COMPANY WEGA-Filmproduktion
WORLD SALES Les Films du Losange
TECHNICAL DATA 103 min., 35mm, Farbe, Dolby SRD
Synopsis
It is the start of the holiday. Anna, Georg and their young son Georgie travel to their idyllic lakeside house. Their neighbours, Fred and Eva, are already there. They have arranged to play golf together the next day. The weather is superb.
While father and son are rigging up their freshly overhauled sailing boat, Anna prepares supper. Suddenly Peter, a young, evidently well-bred guest of their neighbours, is standing at the front door asking Anna for a few eggs, explaining that Eva has started cooking and run out of eggs. Anna willingly complies with the request. Then stopping abruptly she asks how he has entered their property. Peter replies that there is a hole in the fence which Fred had shown him …
